NYC-based drummer, composer, and teacher Allison Miller engages her deep roots in improvisation as a vehicle to explore all music. Described by critics as a “Modern Jazz Icon in the Making”, Miller won Downbeat’s 67th Annual Critics Poll for “Rising Star Drummer” and Jazz Times’s 2019 Critics Poll for “Best Jazz Drummer.”

Miller, a three time Jazz Ambassador for the U.S. State Department and Monterey Jazz Festival Artist in Residence alumni, has released five albums with her longtime band, Boom Tic Boom. Their most recent release, Glitter Wolf, was met with critical acclaim, including “Best Jazz Of 2019” lists from NPR, Rolling Stone and Jazz Times magazine. The band has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe and Asia as well as being featured on such programs as NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Tiny Desk with Bob Boilen, WNYC’s Soundcheck and New Sounds with John Schaefer, and Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride.

While breaking from leading Boom Tic Boom, Miller focuses on collaborations, co-directing Lower Chamber with Wendy Eisenberg and Nick Dunston, Science Fair with Carmen Staaf, Tues Days with Jane Ira Bloom, and Bluenote recording supergroup Artemis.

As a side-musician, Miller has been the rhythmic force behind such artists as Sara Bareilles, Ani DiFranco, Natalie Merchant, Brandi Carlile, Indigo Girls, Toshi Reagon, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Patricia Barber, Marty Ehrlich, Ben Allison, and Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Miller teaches at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music (where she is a Melba Liston Fellow), Stanford Jazz Workshop, Centrum, Geri Allen Jazz Camp, Carnegie Hall’s NYO Jazz, Jazz Education Abroad - Arts Envoy to Thailand, and is the Artistic Director of Jazz Camp West. She is the 2022 director for Jazz Educator’s Network Sisters In Jazz program and a featured clinician at PASIC’s 2022 International Convention. Miller is also a contributor to the groundbreaking book, New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers, published by Berklee Press/Hal Leonard and proudly endorses Yamaha drums, Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks, Evans drumheads and Sunhouse percussion.

Her composition, “Fierce,” arranged by Noriko Ueda, proudly joins the Spring 2024 Brava Jazz Publishing catalog.

www.allisonmiller.com